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Study Group: Semiconductor Evaluators (North America)(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 73

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as IT Services, consumer electronics, wireless devices, software, hardware, information technology, semiconductors, media, cable, satellite, internet, broadband, global positioning systems, advertising, online media, telecommunications, networking, wireless, and data storage, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Paul Massie
Sr. Director of IT and Facilities
Genesis Microchip Inc.

Paul Massie is the Senior Director of Information Technology at Genesis Microchip, a fabless semiconductor firm with 1,200 employees. He is responsible for all IT functions at a growing US$ 300MM company based in multiple countries. Previously, Mr. Massie was the Director of IT Infrastructure at Openwave...

Dieter Mackowiak
Principal
Independent Consultant (Dieter Mackowiak)

Dieter Mackowiak is a Senior Executive Advisor to global Semiconductor and Electronics companies working more than 30 years in this industry. Previously, Mr. Mackowiak was the Senior Vice President at Samsung Semiconductor USA and an Executive Advisor to the President of Samsung USA. He specializes...

Sam Wang
President
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas (SMIC)

Sam Wang, Ph.D., is the President at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas, a wafer foundry. He is also the venture partner of Asenqua venture, a venture fund based in the Silicon Valley. He serves as the Board Advisor of Sunsil Inc., a semiconductor firm representing wafer...

Ron Solanki
Strategic Sourcing Manager
Bristow Group, Inc.

Ron Solanki is the Chief Executive Officer and the President of Solanki Group Inc., a management consultancy to major US, Asian and European Electronics Corporations in the areas of business strategy, portfolio management, business development, manufacturing, and supply chain management. He also serves...

Jon Peddie, Ph.D., President, Jon Peddie ResearchJon Peddie, Ph.D.
President
Jon Peddie Research

Jon Peddie, Ph.D., is one of the pioneers of the graphics industry, starting his career in computer graphics in 1962. After the successful launch of several graphics manufacturing companies, Dr. Peddie began Jon Peddie Associates in 1984 to provide comprehensive data, information and management expertise...

Mark Oskowsky
Principal
Wireless Tech

Mark Oskowsky has formed his own hi-tech development consulting firm exclusively focused on wireless technology after spending over 25 years in various engineering and management positions at cellular, satellite, semiconductor and wireless telecommunication companies...

Darwin Chen
Vice President
Kingston Technology Company Inc

Darwin Chen is the Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Kingston Digital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingston Technology, a global company manufacturing semiconductor memory products. Kingston Digital is specifically focused on the NAND Flash business. Here, Mr. Chen is responsible for product development,...

Jim Handy, Director, Objective AnalysisJim Handy
Director
Objective Analysis

Jim Handy is a Director at Objective Analysis, a market research company. He has over 25 years of experience in semiconductor industry in the areas of memory manufacturing and sales. Mr. Handy is the author of "The Cache Memory Book" and also holds a patent. He has expertise in DRAM, SRAM, NAND and...

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How Many is Enough SSD Companies ? | 09-01-2008
Analysis of: Shakeout looms in SSDs | www.eetimes.com
Author: Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

§ By some estimates there are over 50 companies currently offering products that they call solid state drives (SDDs)  §  Many of these products have been designed hastily and some of them show no improvement in benchmarking tests vs. hard disk drive metrics  §  There...

Hard Disk Makers Work on Higher Performance Drives | 08-29-2008
Analysis of: Western Digital working on 20,000 RPM Raptor | www.bit-tech.net
Author: Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

* There are rumors that Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor drive  * Other HDD companies such as Seagate, Fujitsu and others are also working on improving rotational as well as track change drive latencies  * SSDs are starting to compete against HDDs for performance oriented...

No Recession For Computer Hardware | 08-26-2008
Analysis of: Computer Hardware: Recession-Proof? | www.businessweek.com
Author: Paul Massie, Sr. Director of IT and Facilities, Genesis Microchip Inc.

Both the server and PC markets seem to have held up very well during the past months, and barring a catastrophic collapse of the economy, likely will continue to do well.  Credit must go to the innovations in both technology and business processes achieved primarily by HP, Dell and Intel.

Open Source vs. VMWare and Microsoft | 08-21-2008
Analysis of: Xen Community proposing the latest feature set for 3.3 | weblog.infoworld.com
Author: Paul Massie, Sr. Director of IT and Facilities, Genesis Microchip Inc.

The next evolution of Xen software puts further pressure on VMWare’s market share and margins.  This is a clear indication that VMWare’s business model will require a major overhaul sometime in the next year or two.  Microsoft will be less impacted since they have less today. 

Holographic Storage in Game Systems | 08-18-2008
Author: Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

* Nintendo and InPhase are apparently doing some joint work on holographic storage  * InPhase has been pursuing a holographic storage system (primarily for write once archive applications) for several years  * Any holographic storage product likely will not be in a Nintendo game system for...

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